RI Senate ’06
The ProJo 7-to-7 blog has picked up an Associated Press report saying that Matt Brown has officially dropped out of the Rhode Island Democratic Senate primary.
A new Rhode Island College poll indicates that Senator Chafee holds a comfortable lead in both the GOP primary and the general election: Chafee would beat challenger and Cranston Mayor Stephen P. Laffey 56 percent to 28 percent in the Republican primary. For that question, the poll sampled 107 people who said they would vote…
In today’s Washington Post: Lincoln Chafee was cleaning a horse stall on his well-manicured farm one recent early morning, describing his latest encounter with hostile home-state Republicans. The GOP senator had appeared the previous night before the Scituate Republican Town Committee to seek the endorsement of the small but influential group. In his halting, soft-spoken…
Not to assume too much, but it seems to me that RI Secretary of State and candidate for U.S. Senate Matt Brown is like his fellow state Democrats in that he hasn’t had to speak to or wrangle with anybody with strongly conflicting views in far too long. I mean, think about this: “I think…
In today’s Pawtucket Times, Jim Baron reports on the continuing fallout from Matt Brown’s campaign finance problems…In a ceremony Thursday in the law offices of Republican Attorney General candidate J. William Harsch, state GOP Chairwoman Patricia Morgan signed on to an FEC complaint already filed by the Hawaii Republican Party. The complaint charges a “tit…
While Senator Chafee toyed with the idea of censuring the President–based on the alleged illegality of the NSA wire-tapping program–he has since stated he’s against the idea. Nonetheless, he’s still convinced that the program is illegal…even though the Senate hearings on it have not yet concluded: When Chafee was interviewed in January about the wiretaps…
Senator Lincoln Chafee’s campaign responds on National Review Online to the National Review’s endorsement of Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey’s campaign to replace Chafee, as reported earlier by Marc.
Laffey supporter The Club for Growth passes this news from the Evans-Novak Political Report on its blog (UPDATE: Thanks to Reconcilable Differences for the link to a free version of the full E-N report.): Republicans in Rhode Island say that Sen. Chafee had given private assurances that he would be supporting the Alito Supreme Court…
Earlier this morning, I called Professor Darrell West, Director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, and asked why Rhode Island Republican Primary Senate results were not included in the February 2006 State Survey. Professor West answered that it is too hard to predict where independents will go. If you look back…
